[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Mac Python with Tk -- early beta

[Mark Guzdial]

HOORAY!!!  After I fixed my line endings and got Tkconstants.py from Guido,
it all worked!  It's pretty amazingly fast (being used to HyperCard and
SuperCard).  Quitting is a little weird, in that you quit from Tk and then
again from Python.  (And if you just keep importing demos, everything gets
added into the one window, which is also strange.)  But it works and I'm
really excited about using this!!

A couple of odd things:
- Not all the tkinter demos work.  For example, the scrolling canvas gives
me some error about "xscroll."  But most of those I've tried work just
fine, which is pretty amazing compatibility.
- Try pong and set the speed to really low.  The ball actually "cleans" the
screen -- it's trail is a different gray shade from the background.


>> I typed in the "Simple Hello World Program" from the "Tkinter Life
>> Preserver" documentation, and I'm getting strange errors:
>> - If I just import it, I get told that Frame is unknown.
>> - If I execfile it, I get an I/O error.
>> (See below)
>>
>> I start WISH before I do any imports -- is that the right thing to do?
>
>You shouldn't have to run WISH at all -- the Tk library and Tcl
>interpreter are linked into the Python application.
>
>Did you transfer the Tkinter.py file that was also on the ftp site?
>If not, please do so.  If you did, maybe you transferred it in binary
>mode?  Then it has newlines instead of carriage returns as line
>separators, and the Mac Python interpreter (which only understands
>carriage returns) will believe it contains only a single line, which
>is just a comment (because the first line of the file is a comment).
>
>If you have an editor like BBEdit or Alpha, or even the CodeWarrior
>IDE's editor, there should be an indication of whether it's a Unix or
>Mac text file, and it should let you change the type and save it back
>to convert it.
>
>Let me know if this helps...
>
>--Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
>URL: <http://www.python.org/~guido/>

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